Discovered the Coolest Tone Tonight

I think this thread could have been put in a few different places but here goes.

I recently purchased an Alembic Series II 5 string and it's easily the most incredible bass I've ever played. One of it's features is the ability to split the signal between the two pickups and send a stereo signal. However, so far I've only been running it in mono, but have wanted to play around with its stereo capabilities.

Currently I have an F-1X, an SF-2, a Stewart World 1.2, an Eden D 410-T and an Eden D410 XLT. Prior to purchasing the Series, to achieve a stereo effect, I've been spliting the mono signal from the F-1X with a Y cable to either side of the SF-2, then to each side of the power amp, then to the two cabs. With the tone shaping capabilities of the individual filters on the SF-2, I can get radically different tones going to each cab. I like the tone flexibility, and works very well on a mono bass, but it really doesn't take advantage of the Series II. Thus, I thought I was in the market for another preamp.

Tonight I was plunking around on my instruments after the kid went down, one of which included my, shh, guitar. To amplify this instrument, I recently picked up a used Fender Princeton Chorus. After I put down the guitar and picked up my Series II, it dawned on me, the other preamp I was looking for was right under my nose. Furthermore, it had a very cool chorus, reverb, and gain channel, and was connected to a power amp that drives 2 10" speakers. I decided to hook the bridge pickup into the guitar amp and send the neck pickup into my bass amp system listed above.

When I fired up the whole system I was amazed. The nice smooth bass tones that came from my bass rig blended wonderfully with the chorused highs coming from the Princeton. I went further to shape the neck pickup signal with my faux stereo I was doing before. This gave me an additional cleaner, mellow high frequency tone to mix with the other,effected high frequency tone. I got to tell you, it ws a lot of fun to mess around with and it's going to be cool experimenting with the different configurations in the future.

Now I truly understand the reason why Alembic afficianados, myself included, dig the Series instruments. I know I will never be without one.